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G. W. EVERETT.

WEATHER STRIP FOR WINDOWS, &c.

Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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BY JUa/n/w Arron UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

GEORGE W. EVERETT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WEATHER-STRIP FOR WINDOWS, 8&0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,877, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed March 2, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. EVERETT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVeather-Strips for W'indows, 8mm, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, which is mainly intended to be applied to windows having sliding sashes, and is designed to operate as a weather-strip thereto, differs essentially from weather strips as ordinarily constructed, inasmuch as the strip is not an exterior appendage, but is concealed within the sashes and parting-strips of the window, whereby and by its peculiar construction many advantages are secured.

The invention consists in a flexible strip, made of rubber or its equivalent, secured to and arranged to project from the one part or piece of the joint to be closed and entering at its free or projecting end within a flute,groove, or recess in the other part or piece of the joint, said parts or pieces being the partingstrips and sashes of the window, and meetingrails of the sashes, as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents an inner face view of a window having upper and lower sashes with my invention applied. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same in part on the line as a; in Fig. 1, the lower sash being raised; Fig. 3, a

i vertical section in part upon the line y y in i indicates the frame of the window, B its upper sash, and 0 its lower sash, having panes or glasses a a. Both of these sashes are or may be sliding ones.

D D are the parting-strips, and E E the stopbars, either constructed of single pieces, as usual, or dividedintermediately of their length and united by metal plates 1), to facilitate the removal of either sash withoutdisturbing the other.

d d are the meetingrails of the sashes, of the usual counter-check construction.

The parting-strips D have saw-cuts made in their sides throughout their length, shaped to hold the one edge of flexible rubber strips e e within them.

project beyond the sides of the parting-strips These strips when thus secured Serial No. 193,733. (No model.)

throughout the length thereof, and when the sashes B O are fitted to their places are of sufficient width to curl or enter in a close but easy-fitting manner at their free edges within flutes or grooves f f in the adjacent sides of the sashes throughout the length thereof and permit of the sashes freely moving up and down them. The meetingrails (Z d are similarly provided throughout their length on or in their adjacent faces, the one with a projecting rubber strip, 0, which may be secured within a strip let into the sash, and the other with an angularly-shaped groove or recess, f, adapted to receive the free edge of the elastic stripf in an easy or curling manner within it, with capacity, when the sashes are being opened or closed, of working out and retur11- ing into said groove, but, as in'the case of the flexible strips applied to the parting-strips, being concealed or under cover of the sashes when the latter are closed. Thus in both cases each rubber strip on the one part or i piece of the joint to be closed enters in a concealed manner within a flute, groove, or recess in the other part or piece of thejoint.'

The improved Weatherstrip, as above described, not only serves to make a close joint for the exclusion of dust or wind and weather, but it presents no appreciable obstruction to the movement of the sashes up or down, and does not deface the window as most or all exterior weather strips do. by its concealment within the sashes, from injury by the weather, and will consequently be more durable, nor is it necessary to remove it to put in the sash-cords.

It is protected, too,

Having thus fully described my invention, I i

edges of the elastic strips within them, esscn-- tially as shown and described.

GEORGE XV. EVERETT.

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A. GREGORY, G. SEDGWIOK. 

